A Note to All Casinos - You will Be Removed

casinoranking · #1 (**permalink**) 1st-June-2005, 03:50 PM

These past few months have seen some exponential growth in the traffic that my websites are receiving. In the meantime I have witnessed the worse and best that this industry has to offer.

Some casinos like Casino Profit Share ran a special promotion in May and paid 40% commission for Music Hall Casino. I decided to take this group up on this generous offer, and featured this casino. For the first time I hit the 5 figure mark with this program. The support has always been upstanding, if I send an email i get an immediate response.

Casinos that start commissions off at 35% are willing to negotiate special rates with me, and I sometimes decide to list these casinos and to cooperate in an effort to bring in the most new players and to have a mutually beneficial relationship.

As time goes on most casinos have increased my commissions. Not only that but they are there for me if I need them. I normally have a great time with most affiliate managers. Hannah from slotland is a great example, she is always courteous and willing to help.

There's a lot of casinos that are also great with support but I will skip out for the sake of brevity.

Yet during all this. Some casinos that offer some of smallest commissions available (25%) seem to try to give me some negative incentives. Unless I keep sending them new players they will move my commission down to 20%. One great example of this is Roxy Affiliates.

Well Roxy, I am going to remove all of your links. The reason I did not promote you is because I never made good money with your programs. Instead of fixing the problems with your conversion and retention rate you decide to penalize affiliates. All this will serve to do, as in my case, is to remove the last links that were going to your website. I had no problem doing this with referback, and I earned A LOT more with them. I am sure I wont be the only webmaster to do this.

You seem to be forgetting that at this moment in time, there's too many casinos and affiliate networks for us to send our traffic to. When a network makes a move like this, it's the incentive that we need to send our traffic elsewhere.

20% is a slap in the face. It's a slap from any program. And please dont tell me it's because your costs are high, if that was the case no other microgaming casino could afford to pay us 30 - 50% commission.

chill · #2 (**permalink**) 1st-June-2005, 04:09 PM

Totally agree, your gone and I won't miss you a sec and vice versa, but that's another story.

kidd75219 · #3 (**permalink**) 1st-June-2005, 04:39 PM

I also agree. Your links are gone. Why send someone to a cowardly place that is afraid of high rollers? Who wants to play Jungle Jim Slots for a maximum coin size of a dime, when all the other casinos are half a buck. And it's like that with the majority of your games. Roxy Palace definitely does not want your high rollers.

And to launch a sister site without offering it to the affiliates? That is really chickens**t

1CasinoListing · #4 (**permalink**) 1st-June-2005, 05:05 PM

Ooops... either I missed this posting when I started to write mine in the other thread... or it took me so long to write mine that this one was started in the mean time... anyway, what I had to say can be found here: http://www.gpwa.org/forum/viewtopic....418&highlight=

win_your_wager · #5 (**permalink**) 2nd-June-2005, 02:03 PM

Same here. Removing Roxy links (& some others) from my sites on the next update I do.

universal4 · #6 (**permalink**) 2nd-June-2005, 02:51 PM

After my brief meeting with Garth (it lasted about 27 seconds) in Las Vegas last year, I could clearly see how little affiliates meant to Roxy. The recent actions drive that point home.

Thank you for that 27 seconds as Roxy was the first property that came down when I got back....and that saved me from having to pull them now.

Rick
Universal4

Amateur · #7 (**permalink**) 2nd-June-2005, 03:00 PM

Yes Rick,

I remember how he asked you to do him the favor of removing his casino from your network!!

It was very nice of you to oblige him so quickly. Apparently your cooperation wasn't enough for him, and he has set about driving away others as well.

These results should satisfy him very nicely.

universal4 · #8 (**permalink**) 2nd-June-2005, 03:01 PM

Yes Liz....and by the way, I have DOUBLED the size of my network since then.

Rick
Universal4

bigbcasinos · #9 (**permalink**) 2nd-June-2005, 04:19 PM

If the actions of Roxy and others makes you remove their links, then of course it's each persons right. And believe me, they for sure were aware that there would be a reaction.

It was however hardly the affiliate manager that chose the affiliate program changes though. These changes were brought on by management.

This includes a number of other groups too.

Lets not make this personal and about the actions and emotions of the affiliate manager.

Amateur · #10 (**permalink**) 2nd-June-2005, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Amateur

Yes Rick,

I remember how he asked you to do him the favor of removing his casino from your network!!

It was very nice of you to oblige him so quickly. Apparently your cooperation wasn't enough for him, and he has set about driving away others as well.

These results should satisfy him very nicely.

Garth did that!!